Rensselaer recently hosted its 14th annual wumpus competition (officially titled the "Lego Robot Roundup").
Read MorePeter Kugel, Boston College
The weekly 'Issues in Cognitive Science' series provides an informal setting in which faculty, graduate students and invited speakers present their current research or plans for future research, and discuss recent journal articles of general interest to cognitive scientists. The 'catered brown bag' meetings take place every other Wednesday, 12-1:30pm, Sage 4101. Many of these presentations may be viewed live on our online video stream, and after the fact in our video archive. General information for speakers
Peter Kugel, Boston College
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Sage 4101
April 7, 2010 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Abstract: "Minds may be computers but, because they evolved, they cannot be programmed the way the computers that many of us have on our desks can be. Therefore, they must acquire the algorithms they apply in other ways. Looking at how they do that might help us understand how minds work and why people need intelligence to play chess, why computers can play chess without it, and why animals cannot play chess at all."
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